Banishing phantom is one of our culture’s favorite ways of dealing with the darker emotions. But banishing an emotion doesn’t make it vanish! Banishing fear is a temporary haven for lingering unconscious energy. Like grief, fear needs a community where it can be spoken and heard, not a sign that says. “No phantoms allowed.”
Sometimes banishing fear is a good idea. But banishing our fear of larger concerns like AIDS or environmental.pollution only contributes to making what we fear more likely to happen.
Miriam Greenspan.
Emerging From The Dark Night 